The mobile app
Selfie Shifts lives in your staff's pocket: schedule, pick-ups, trades, time off, and the time clock — with notifications the moment anything changes. Available for Android, with the iPhone app on its way.
Staff log in with the email their manager added them with — the invite email includes a temporary password they replace on first login. One account works across every organization they work for.
The three tabs
- My shifts — everything coming up, soonest first, with the time clock card on top when your organization uses it. Tap a shift for details and actions: offer it up, propose a trade, confirm "I'll be there", see who else is working, and — when the owner has pinned tasks to that shift — a checklist to tick off as you go (a "Tasks 1/3" chip on the shift card tells you there's one). Trade requests that need an answer appear here in amber.
- Pick up — open shifts and events across all their organizations, first come first served. One tap to sign up; a shift just grabbed shows green with a check so there's no doubt it worked. Fully staffed shifts have a Volunteer button to stand by as backup.
- Profile — time off requests, availability, scheduling preferences, personal pictures (licenses and cards to show on demand), phone number, and password.
Things worth teaching your crew
- Allow notifications when the app asks — that's how they hear about open shifts, schedule changes, and trade offers the moment they happen. The 🔔 bell in the app keeps the history if they miss a buzz.
- Shift trades: tap your shift → Propose a trade → pick a coworker with the same job → pick which of their shifts you want in exchange → send. They accept, decline, or counter once with a different shift — then it's settled and both schedules update.
- Time off lives under Profile: pick the first and last day, add a reason, send. The decision comes back as a notification.
- Clocking in (if the time clock is on): the big card at the top of My shifts. The app nudges anyone who forgets to clock out.
- The wall QR: scanning an open shift's QR code on the wall display claims it instantly — even if they're logged out, it completes right after login.
A TV in the staff area
There's also a TV display app for Amazon Fire TV and Android TV: it shows the schedule and rotates through what matters today, never sleeps, and comes back on its own after a power cut. Staff scan the QR codes it shows to claim open shifts from their phones. Two-minute install — see the TV display app page.
For managers on the go
Managers use the same app for their own shifts — and the mobile website is tuned for the rest: the schedule page on a phone has one-tap assign, and the bell, approvals, and announcements all work from a phone browser. The heavy planning tools (Shift Builder, the assistant) stay desktop-sized.